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Words with R

There are 90,595 words that contain the letter R in our word list. The most common are FOR, YOUR and RE. The highest-scoring in Scrabble is RAZZAMATAZZES (51 points).

Words
90,595
Top Scrabble word
RAZZAMATAZZES, 51 pts
Top Words With Friends word
ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHICALLY, 55 pts
Lengths
2 to 28 letters
Filters: starts with, ends with, length, leave out

Common words that contain the letter R

The 50 most used in spoken English (SUBTLEX-US), with a short meaning.

The 1,000 most common of 90,595 words that contain the letter R

Numbers are Scrabble points, then Words With Friends points. Use the search box above to filter the full list.

2-letter words 3

  • er2/2
  • or2/2
  • re2/2

3-letter words 28

  • air3/3
  • are3/3
  • arm5/6
  • art3/3
  • bar5/6
  • bro5/6
  • car5/6
  • cry8/8
  • dry7/6
  • ear3/3
  • far6/6
  • for6/6
  • her6/5
  • nor3/4
  • our3/4
  • per5/6
  • ran3/4
  • rat3/3
  • ray6/5
  • red4/4
  • rid4/4
  • rip5/6
  • rob5/6
  • row6/6
  • run3/5
  • sir3/3
  • try6/5
  • war6/6

4-letter words 125

  • area4/4
  • arms6/7
  • army9/9
  • bars6/7
  • bear6/7
  • beer6/7
  • bird7/8
  • born6/8
  • brad7/8
  • burn6/9
  • bury9/10
  • card7/8
  • care6/7
  • carl6/8
  • cars6/7
  • crap8/10
  • crew9/10
  • cure6/8
  • dare5/5
  • dark9/9
  • dear5/5
  • dirt5/5
  • door5/5
  • drag6/7
  • draw8/8
  • drew8/8
  • drop7/8
  • drug6/8
  • earl4/5
  • ears4/4
  • ever7/8
  • fair7/7
  • farm9/10
  • fear7/7
  • fire7/7
  • firm9/10
  • form9/10
  • four7/8
  • free7/7
  • from9/10
  • girl5/7
  • grab7/9
  • gray8/8
  • grew8/9
  • grow8/9
  • hair7/6
  • hard8/7
  • harm9/9
  • hear7/6
  • here7/6
  • hero7/6
  • hire7/6
  • horn7/7
  • hour7/7
  • hurt7/7
  • iron4/5
  • jerk15/17
  • jury14/16
  • kirk12/12
  • liar4/5
  • lord5/6
  • mark10/11
  • more6/7
  • near4/5
  • ours4/5
  • over7/8
  • pair6/7
  • park10/11
  • part6/7
  • poor6/7
  • pray9/9
  • prom8/10
  • pure6/8
  • race6/7
  • rain4/5
  • rare4/4
  • rate4/4
  • read5/5
  • real4/5
  • rent4/5
  • rest4/4
  • rich9/9
  • rick10/11
  • ride5/5
  • ring5/7
  • rise4/4
  • risk8/8
  • road5/5
  • rock10/11
  • role4/5
  • roll4/6
  • roof7/7
  • room6/7
  • rope6/7
  • rose4/4
  • rude5/6
  • ruin4/6
  • rule4/6
  • runs4/6
  • rush7/7
  • ruth7/7
  • sort4/4
  • star4/4
  • sure4/5
  • tear4/4
  • tour4/5
  • trap6/7
  • tree4/4
  • trip6/7
  • true4/5
  • turn4/6
  • very10/10
  • warm9/10
  • warn7/8
  • wear7/7
  • were7/7
  • wire7/7
  • word8/8
  • wore7/7
  • work11/11
  • wrap9/10
  • yard8/7
  • year7/6
  • your7/7
  • zero13/13

5-letter words 223

  • actor7/8
  • after8/8
  • agree6/7
  • alarm7/9
  • alert5/6
  • anger6/8
  • angry9/10
  • apart7/8
  • argue6/8
  • armed8/9
  • aware8/8
  • birds8/9
  • birth10/10
  • board8/9
  • bored8/9
  • brain7/9
  • brave10/12
  • bravo10/12
  • bread8/9
  • break11/12
  • bride8/9
  • bring8/11
  • broke11/12
  • brown10/12
  • burns7/10
  • cards8/9
  • cares7/8
  • carol7/9
  • carry10/10
  • chair10/10
  • cheer10/10
  • clear7/9
  • color7/9
  • court7/9
  • cover10/12
  • crack13/15
  • crane7/9
  • crash10/10
  • crazy19/19
  • cream9/11
  • crime9/11
  • cross7/8
  • crowd11/12
  • cruel7/10
  • curse7/9
  • dirty9/8
  • doors6/6
  • drama8/9
  • dream8/9
  • dress6/6
  • drink10/11
  • drive9/10
  • drove9/10
  • drugs7/9
  • drunk10/12
  • early8/8
  • earth8/7
  • enter5/6
  • every11/11
  • extra12/12
  • favor11/12
  • fever11/12
  • fired9/9
  • first8/8
  • floor8/9
  • force10/11
  • frank12/13
  • freak12/12
  • fresh11/10
  • front8/9
  • fruit8/9
  • girls6/8
  • glory9/10
  • grace8/10
  • grade7/8
  • grand7/9
  • grant6/8
  • grave9/11
  • great6/7
  • green6/8
  • group8/11
  • grown9/11
  • guard7/9
  • harry11/9
  • heard9/8
  • heart8/7
  • henry11/10
  • hired9/8
  • honor8/8
  • horse8/7
  • hours8/8
  • hurry11/10
  • hurts8/8
  • jerry15/16
  • large6/8
  • later5/6
  • laura5/7
  • learn5/7
  • loser5/6
  • lover8/10
  • lower8/9
  • major14/17
  • march12/13
  • maria7/8
  • marks11/12
  • marry10/10
  • mayor10/10
  • mercy12/13
  • merry10/10
  • nerve8/10
  • never8/10
  • north8/8
  • nurse5/7
  • offer11/11
  • older6/7
  • order6/6
  • other8/7
  • owner8/9
  • paper9/11
  • paris7/8
  • parts7/8
  • party10/10
  • peter7/8
  • piper9/11
  • power10/11
  • press7/8
  • price9/11
  • pride8/9
  • prime9/11
  • print7/9
  • prize16/17
  • proof10/11
  • proud8/10
  • prove10/12
  • purse7/9
  • radar6/6
  • radio6/6
  • raise5/5
  • range6/8
  • reach10/10
  • ready9/8
  • relax12/13
  • right9/9
  • rings6/8
  • river8/9
  • robin7/9
  • rocks11/12
  • roger6/7
  • rooms7/8
  • rough9/10
  • round6/8
  • route5/6
  • royal8/8
  • rules5/7
  • scare7/8
  • scary10/10
  • score7/8
  • screw10/11
  • serve8/9
  • share8/7
  • sharp10/10
  • shirt8/7
  • shore8/7
  • short8/7
  • smart7/8
  • sorry8/7
  • spare7/8
  • sport7/8
  • stars5/5
  • start5/5
  • store5/5
  • storm7/8
  • story8/7
  • sugar6/8
  • super7/9
  • swear8/8
  • sword9/9
  • tears5/5
  • terms7/8
  • terry8/7
  • their8/7
  • there8/7
  • third9/8
  • three8/7
  • threw11/10
  • throw11/10
  • tiger6/7
  • tired6/6
  • tower8/8
  • trace7/8
  • track11/12
  • trade6/6
  • trail5/6
  • train5/6
  • trash8/7
  • treat5/5
  • trees5/5
  • trial5/6
  • trick11/12
  • tried6/6
  • truck11/13
  • truly8/9
  • trunk9/11
  • trust5/6
  • truth8/8
  • turns5/7
  • under6/8
  • virus8/10
  • water8/8
  • weird9/9
  • where11/10
  • words9/9
  • works12/12
  • world9/10
  • worry11/10
  • worse8/8
  • worst8/8
  • worth11/10
  • write8/8
  • wrong9/11
  • wrote8/8
  • years8/7
  • yours8/8

6-letter words 208

  • aboard9/10
  • across8/9
  • affair12/12
  • afford13/13
  • afraid10/10
  • agreed8/9
  • answer9/10
  • appear10/12
  • around7/9
  • arrest6/6
  • arrive9/10
  • artist6/6
  • assure6/7
  • barely11/12
  • before11/12
  • better8/9
  • bigger10/13
  • boring9/12
  • borrow11/12
  • bother11/11
  • brains8/10
  • breaks12/13
  • breath11/11
  • bridge10/12
  • bright12/13
  • brings9/12
  • broken12/14
  • buried9/11
  • burned9/12
  • camera10/12
  • cancer10/13
  • career8/9
  • carter8/9
  • center8/10
  • charge12/13
  • cheers11/11
  • church16/17
  • circle10/13
  • clever11/14
  • closer8/10
  • corner8/10
  • course8/10
  • create8/9
  • credit9/10
  • crying12/14
  • danger8/10
  • desert7/7
  • desire7/7
  • dinner7/9
  • direct9/10
  • doctor9/10
  • dollar7/9
  • dragon8/10
  • dreams9/10
  • drinks11/12
  • driver10/11
  • during8/11
  • easier6/6
  • effort12/12
  • either9/8
  • energy10/11
  • entire6/7
  • expert15/16
  • faster9/9
  • father12/11
  • favour12/14
  • figure10/12
  • finger10/12
  • firing10/12
  • flower12/13
  • forced12/13
  • forces11/12
  • forest9/9
  • forget10/11
  • forgot10/11
  • former11/12
  • fourth12/12
  • freeze18/18
  • french14/15
  • friend10/11
  • future9/11
  • garage8/10
  • garden8/10
  • german9/12
  • ground8/11
  • guards8/10
  • harder10/9
  • hardly13/12
  • hearts9/8
  • higher13/12
  • honour9/10
  • horses9/8
  • hungry13/14
  • hunter9/10
  • ignore7/9
  • jersey16/17
  • jordan14/17
  • junior13/17
  • killer10/12
  • lawyer12/12
  • leader7/8
  • letter6/7
  • longer7/10
  • market12/13
  • martin8/10
  • master8/9
  • matter8/9
  • member12/15
  • memory13/14
  • miller8/11
  • mirror8/9
  • mister8/9
  • modern9/11
  • morgan9/12
  • mother11/11
  • murder9/11
  • nature6/8
  • nearly9/10
  • normal8/11
  • number10/14
  • orange7/9
  • orders7/7
  • others9/8
  • papers10/12
  • pardon9/11
  • parker12/13
  • period9/10
  • person8/10
  • pierce10/12
  • player11/12
  • potter8/9
  • powers11/12
  • prefer11/12
  • pretty11/11
  • priest8/9
  • prince10/13
  • prison8/10
  • proper10/12
  • rabbit10/12
  • raised7/7
  • rather9/8
  • really9/10
  • reason6/7
  • recall8/11
  • record9/10
  • refuse9/10
  • regret7/8
  • remain8/10
  • remind9/11
  • remove11/13
  • repeat8/9
  • report8/9
  • rescue8/10
  • result6/8
  • return6/8
  • reward10/10
  • riding8/10
  • rights10/10
  • ripped11/13
  • ruined7/9
  • scared9/10
  • scream10/12
  • screen8/10
  • script10/12
  • search11/11
  • secret8/9
  • secure8/10
  • senior6/7
  • series6/6
  • served10/11
  • shower12/11
  • silver9/11
  • sister6/6
  • sooner6/7
  • source8/10
  • spirit8/9
  • sports8/9
  • spread9/10
  • spring9/12
  • square15/16
  • stairs6/6
  • starts6/6
  • street6/6
  • strike10/10
  • strong7/9
  • suffer12/13
  • summer10/13
  • supper10/13
  • surely9/10
  • target7/8
  • theory12/10
  • threat9/8
  • throat9/8
  • thrown12/12
  • toward10/10
  • travel9/11
  • tricks12/13
  • troops8/9
  • trying10/11
  • turkey13/13
  • turned7/9
  • victor11/13
  • virgin10/13
  • winner9/11
  • winter9/10
  • wonder10/11
  • worked14/14
  • writer9/9

7-letter words 181

  • address9/9
  • airport9/10
  • already11/11
  • alright11/12
  • another10/10
  • answers10/11
  • anymore12/13
  • appears11/13
  • arrived11/12
  • article9/11
  • bedroom12/14
  • breathe12/12
  • brother12/12
  • brought13/15
  • burning10/15
  • cameras11/13
  • careful12/15
  • carried10/11
  • central9/12
  • century12/14
  • certain9/11
  • charges13/14
  • charlie12/13
  • clearly12/14
  • concern11/15
  • control9/12
  • correct11/13
  • country12/14
  • courage10/13
  • covered13/15
  • created10/11
  • curious9/12
  • darling9/12
  • degrees9/10
  • deliver11/13
  • deserve11/12
  • destroy11/10
  • divorce13/15
  • doctors10/11
  • dollars8/10
  • dressed9/9
  • driving12/15
  • dropped13/15
  • earlier7/8
  • express16/17
  • failure10/12
  • federal11/12
  • figured12/14
  • figures11/13
  • fingers11/13
  • flowers13/14
  • foreign11/13
  • forever13/14
  • forgive14/16
  • fortune10/12
  • forward14/14
  • frankly17/18
  • freedom13/14
  • friends11/12
  • funeral10/13
  • further13/13
  • garbage11/14
  • general8/11
  • grandma11/14
  • grandpa11/14
  • growing12/15
  • hearing11/12
  • herself13/13
  • history13/11
  • however16/16
  • hundred12/13
  • hurting11/13
  • journey17/20
  • laundry11/13
  • lawyers13/13
  • learned8/10
  • letters7/8
  • library12/13
  • manager10/13
  • married10/11
  • marshal12/13
  • matters9/10
  • members13/16
  • miracle11/14
  • monster9/11
  • morning10/14
  • mystery15/14
  • natural7/10
  • neither10/10
  • nervous10/13
  • nowhere13/13
  • nuclear9/13
  • numbers11/15
  • offered14/14
  • officer15/16
  • ordered9/9
  • parents9/11
  • parking14/17
  • parties9/10
  • partner9/11
  • percent11/14
  • perfect14/16
  • perhaps14/15
  • picture11/14
  • popular11/15
  • prepare11/13
  • present9/11
  • pretend10/12
  • private12/14
  • problem13/17
  • proceed12/14
  • process11/13
  • program12/15
  • project18/22
  • promise11/13
  • protect11/13
  • purpose11/14
  • quarter16/17
  • reached13/13
  • reading9/11
  • reality10/10
  • realize16/17
  • reasons7/8
  • receive12/14
  • records10/11
  • regular8/11
  • release7/8
  • reminds10/12
  • reports9/10
  • request16/17
  • respect11/13
  • results7/9
  • revenge11/14
  • ringing9/13
  • robbery14/15
  • rolling8/12
  • routine7/9
  • running8/13
  • scratch14/15
  • screwed13/14
  • secrets9/10
  • senator7/8
  • serious7/8
  • service12/14
  • several10/12
  • sheriff16/15
  • sisters7/7
  • soldier8/9
  • staring8/10
  • started8/8
  • stories7/7
  • strange8/10
  • streets7/7
  • support11/14
  • surface12/14
  • surgery11/12
  • survive13/16
  • teacher12/12
  • theater10/9
  • therapy15/14
  • through14/14
  • towards11/11
  • traffic15/16
  • trained8/9
  • trapped12/14
  • treated8/8
  • trouble9/12
  • turning8/12
  • uniform12/15
  • victory15/16
  • warning11/14
  • warrant10/11
  • wearing11/13
  • weather13/12
  • whether16/14
  • whoever16/16
  • working15/17
  • worried11/11
  • writing11/13
  • written10/11
  • younger11/13

8-letter words 110

  • anywhere17/16
  • approach17/19
  • arrested9/9
  • attorney11/11
  • bathroom15/16
  • behavior16/17
  • birthday17/16
  • breaking15/18
  • bringing12/17
  • brothers13/13
  • carrying14/16
  • charming16/19
  • children14/16
  • computer14/18
  • consider11/13
  • contract12/15
  • creature10/12
  • criminal12/16
  • daughter13/14
  • delivery15/16
  • directly14/15
  • director11/12
  • district11/12
  • dreaming12/15
  • drinking14/17
  • elevator11/13
  • entirely11/12
  • everyone14/15
  • exercise17/18
  • familiar13/15
  • favorite14/15
  • friendly15/16
  • gorgeous10/13
  • governor12/15
  • grateful12/15
  • greatest9/10
  • hercules13/15
  • homework20/20
  • horrible13/14
  • hundreds13/14
  • interest8/9
  • learning9/13
  • marriage11/13
  • marshall13/15
  • material10/12
  • memories12/14
  • military13/14
  • minister10/12
  • monsieur10/13
  • murdered12/14
  • murderer11/13
  • officers16/17
  • ordinary12/12
  • original9/12
  • partners10/12
  • personal10/13
  • pictures12/15
  • pleasure10/13
  • powerful16/19
  • practice14/17
  • precious12/15
  • pregnant11/15
  • prepared13/15
  • presence12/15
  • presents10/12
  • pressure10/12
  • princess12/15
  • prisoner10/12
  • probably17/20
  • problems14/18
  • progress11/13
  • promised13/15
  • property15/16
  • realized18/19
  • received14/16
  • recently13/15
  • remember14/17
  • reporter10/11
  • research13/13
  • returned9/11
  • reverend12/14
  • romantic12/15
  • security13/14
  • separate10/11
  • sergeant9/11
  • services13/15
  • shoulder12/13
  • soldiers9/10
  • standard10/11
  • starting9/11
  • straight12/12
  • stranger9/11
  • strength12/13
  • stronger9/11
  • surprise10/12
  • terrible10/12
  • terribly13/14
  • terrific13/14
  • throwing15/16
  • together12/12
  • tomorrow13/14
  • training9/12
  • transfer11/12
  • treasure8/9
  • universe11/14
  • upstairs10/12
  • whatever17/17
  • whenever17/18
  • wherever17/17
  • yourself14/15

9-letter words 61

  • according15/19
  • afternoon12/14
  • apartment13/16
  • authority15/14
  • bothering15/17
  • boyfriend18/19
  • breakfast18/19
  • breathing15/17
  • brilliant11/15
  • carefully17/20
  • celebrate13/16
  • certainly14/16
  • character16/17
  • charlotte14/15
  • cigarette12/14
  • commander16/20
  • concerned14/18
  • customers13/16
  • dangerous11/14
  • desperate12/13
  • destroyed14/13
  • different16/17
  • direction12/14
  • disappear14/16
  • emergency17/20
  • everybody21/21
  • extremely21/22
  • forgotten13/15
  • guarantee10/13
  • important13/16
  • impressed14/16
  • inspector13/16
  • insurance11/15
  • interrupt11/14
  • interview15/17
  • introduce12/15
  • miserable13/16
  • naturally12/15
  • necessary14/15
  • newspaper16/19
  • nightmare15/17
  • operation11/13
  • otherwise15/14
  • ourselves12/15
  • perfectly19/21
  • president12/14
  • professor14/15
  • recognize21/24
  • sacrifice16/18
  • screaming14/18
  • secretary14/14
  • seriously12/13
  • somewhere17/17
  • suffering16/19
  • surprised12/14
  • therefore15/14
  • treatment11/13
  • underwear13/15
  • wonderful16/19
  • wondering14/17
  • yesterday16/14

10-letter words 36

  • apparently17/20
  • appreciate16/19
  • attractive15/17
  • background20/25
  • cigarettes13/15
  • conference17/21
  • considered14/16
  • department15/18
  • difference19/21
  • discovered17/19
  • downstairs14/15
  • everything20/21
  • everywhere22/21
  • experience21/24
  • friendship19/20
  • frightened18/19
  • girlfriend15/18
  • government16/21
  • impression14/17
  • incredible15/19
  • interested11/12
  • particular14/18
  • permission14/17
  • personally15/18
  • previously18/21
  • protection14/17
  • reasonable12/15
  • remembered17/20
  • reputation12/15
  • restaurant10/12
  • ridiculous13/17
  • sweetheart16/15
  • understand12/15
  • understood12/14
  • university16/18
  • yourselves16/18

11-letter words 13

  • anniversary17/19
  • comfortable20/24
  • considering15/19
  • disappeared17/19
  • embarrassed16/18
  • grandfather19/20
  • grandmother18/20
  • information16/19
  • interesting12/15
  • opportunity18/21
  • performance20/24
  • practically20/24
  • responsible15/19

12-letter words 7

  • conversation17/21
  • embarrassing17/21
  • neighborhood22/23
  • particularly19/23
  • professional17/20
  • relationship17/19
  • surveillance17/23

13-letter words 3

  • circumstances21/27
  • understanding16/21
  • unfortunately19/23

14-letter words 1

  • responsibility21/24

15-letter words 1

  • congratulations18/24

Longest: ETHYLENEDIAMINETETRAACETATES (28 letters).

Questions people ask

How many words that contain the letter R are there?

Our word list has 90,595 words that contain the letter R.

Which words that contain the letter R score the most points?

In Scrabble it is RAZZAMATAZZES with 51 points. In Words With Friends it is ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHICALLY with 55 points. Bonus squares are not counted.

What are common words that contain the letter R?

The most used in everyday English are FOR, YOUR and RE.